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Manifesting Wealth

Time to do some serious thinking on your financial goals, especially where those goals relate to specific items. In the last chapter we worked with general abundance, though you could change any of those spells to enhance a particular project, should you so desire. In this chapter we’ll concentrate on specifics, such as your personal money flow, manifesting large-ticket items, enhancing your bank balance, and other financial enterprises.

We’ll also talk a little about project building and our relationships with others concerning our prosperity.

As with the last chapter, the manifesting spells presented here generally correspond with the new moon (to manifest beginnings) through the waxing moon (the time to add growth energies). Again, the full moon is used for inspiration and power. I’ve also included the “end pieces” for each spell, filled with suggestions for those who would like to try the spell with a more complicated twist.

The Group Mind

I’ve discovered that the group mind of your family and close friends relates to your health and financial success. If one member of the family is a hypochondriac, then you can bet many family members have a habit of thinking up diseases for themselves, even if they don’t vocalize their fears. If one person suffers from abuse, the whole family suffers. Nothing—no pain, no sorrow, no happiness, no joy—comes to any one person alone. Your financial status works the same way. If your parents always worried about money and talked constantly of being poor, then you (as an adult) may think that way, too (I came from this category). This negative thought process drew negative energy into the family finances. Repeated statements of how poor you are provide a nasty cauldron of failure. When I was a kid, I was always told, “Bakers (that was my last name) never have any money.” I heard that statement so often, I believed it. I struggled through many years of this kind of negative thinking and very tough financial times, especially when my kids were very young.

Although all magickal applications rely on your belief in a positive future, I’ve found prosperity magick requires that you let go of all negative inhibitions (thoughts and feelings) you may have had about money in the past. You need to open your arms and accept the abundance of wealth. This is, indeed, a choice. Visualize prosperity as an energy in and of itself—an energy of which there is more than enough for everyone.

I’ve also discovered that panic is a terrible epidemic, especially in a closed, family environment, when you’re talking about money. I’d been working prosperity magick for over a year and everything was perking along just fine. Suddenly, from out of the proverbial-blue-of-money-sucking-land, a large bill squatted firmly in the family lap. Normally I’m the one who panics and my husband is the calm one. Not this time. He ranted and raved. He paced the floor. He did the “how will we?” syndrome. (How will we survive? How will we pay this now? How will we pay something else later? If I’d only known I wouldn’t have spent . . . you get the picture, right?) His panic was contagious and soon we were all in a tizzy. Kitchen-sinking began. (You know, dredging up old emotional wounds that haven’t healed properly?) I found myself back in that awful emotional state I’d been in before I started seriously working on my financial well-being.

The difference this time was that a part of me watched what was happening with a cold, logical eye, and I realized that things were not as bad as they seemed. This was just a minor setback (or even a lesson well learned). I concentrated on calming my husband down, and every time he brought up something negative from the past, I gently told him “You don’t want to go there, that has no bearing on the issue at hand,” and then proceeded to do the magickal work necessary to enhance our financial affairs so I could pay that bill without hardship. It worked, and we both learned something from the experience.

While you work prosperity magick, think long and hard about your previous and current environment. Consciously separate yourself from negative physical and emotional patterning. Learn to heal old wounds that are coupled with financial issues.

The Ebb and Flow of Your Money11

I learned a long time ago that our lives ebb and flow with the energy of the seasons. I also discovered that each individual has a personal cycle that includes busy times and fallow times that may have nothing to do with seasonal energies, planetary influences, or moon phases. These cycles are healthy and normal. It wasn’t much of a stretch, then, to conclude that this energy movement within our lives also affects the ebb and flow of our prosperity. Other things in our lives also undulate in cycles: relationships, emotions, sleep patterns, and so on. As one part of our daily life rises to excellence, something else may falter or slow without our conscious observance. If these cycles are natural, then how are we to cope—especially when we’re talking about cold, hard cash?

First, learn your personal cycle. Sit down and go over the ebb and flow of your money within one month, and then within the year. If you’re the step-by-step kind of gal or guy, you might want to make a graph with colored pencils to help you pinpoint days when you emotionally reach that “critical” stage. Creatively consider how you could bring balance into this natural ebb and flow. Second, learn to control the negative emotions that you associate with those natural fallow times. Seek out positive activities over those few days (or weeks). You may discover several peaks and valleys in your chart, or perhaps only a few. Everyone is different.

Does this mean that you will definitely be poor some days and rich others? No. This just means that energy cycles will be different, and you need to become attuned to these personal cycles, then act appropriately. By working through the abundance spells and banishing spells (in the next chapter), you will already have started this, assuming that you’ve already jumped around a bit in the book to find those spells that would immediately meet your needs; if you haven’t done this, that’s okay, too.12

In a twenty-eight-day lunar cycle, we know that there is a time for drawing things toward you (the new to full moon) and a time to push negative energies away from you (full to new moon). We know, too, that the full moon is often considered a period of balance, where both manifesting and banishing practices will work well. We also know that you have a personal cycle that may (or may not) adhere to the lunar cycle, the seasons, or planetary influences. How do we get all these energies to work together to create positive abundance? Actually, it’s not that hard, once you put your noggin to work.

What kind of energy is moving about you today? Is money flowing in at a steady pace or is there more going out the door? Perhaps this is an even day (or week)—nothing in, nothing out.

Money In—This is great, but don’t sabotage yourself like I used to do. Money would come in, things would be great, and I would be busy. Sometimes I thought I was too busy, so I would sit and contemplate that events should slow a bit until I got a handle on things. I literally projected things stopping. Mistake. After a few days, more money would go out than in. I’d subconsciously dammed my monetary flow. On the days of monetary flow (money in), keep those creative fires burning. Continue your abundance or banishing work. Look at money as energy. Give this energy a color, if you like (green is an obvious choice). Concentrate on this energy continuing to grow all around you.

Money Out—More money going out than coming in leads to depression. To remind myself that money-out days are only temporary, I started to do something special on them—something to make my day different. Sometimes I would play games with my children, take a walk, or read a good book. I made darned sure I did something magickal, even if it was just cleaning my altar, learning something new, tidying up my magickal cabinet (a day-long job in itself), or rearranging items on one of my household shrines. I discovered that a small bit of magick will lift your spirits and help you get through a trying day. Try a long, ritual bath, an invigorating shower, or a bit of gardening to get you in touch with the earth. Repeat positive affirmations or do a little meditation. I could give you an incredibly long list of things that I’ve tried—and all of them worked. Remember that money-out days are a temporary condition that will lessen in intensity and length as you learn to manifest abundance in your life.

Money-out days (or weeks) can mean that you’ve got a block somewhere and it’s time to start searching through your lifestyle to figure out where that block is and what you’re going to do about it. Some blocks can be removed within seconds (like a pesky, negative thought), where others may not be so easy (like a spouse who can’t keep their paws off the twenty-four-hour cash machine). Blocks can be mental, emotional, physical, or spiritual. Only you, the master sleuth of your life, can determine what those blocks might be. Sometimes the blocks will be self-imposed and other times the blocks will be created by others.

For years, I had an energy block regarding money-out days. Different though, from years past, was my new determination to be prosperous. I’d worked through a lot of negative things and accomplished a great deal, yet I was in a backslide—more money-out than money-in. As I worked through all the spells in this book, I had fewer and fewer money-out days and lots more money-in days. Once I began the concerted effort to become prosperous, any blocks I’d experienced in the past began to crumble and I was well on my way to the lifestyle that I wanted.

Nothing in, nothing out—I used to find these days incredibly frustrating (and frightening) if I had just gone through a money-out period, but during a money-in period I found these inactive times quiet and calming. Either way, these days are not the days to sit on your magickal you-know-what and watch the hours slip by. No, no, no! Nothing in, nothing out may mean that you aren’t clear on what you really want, which is a normal human condition. Most people are afraid to reach for what they most desire because they rationalize (for whatever reason) that it just can’t happen. On these days, work on something that you would like to do (not what you think you must or should do). It was on a nothing in, nothing out day that I came up with the following Golden Cord of Manifestation exercise. Now, it took me a while to master this exercise, so don’t throw your hands up in despair if it doesn’t work for you right away. Just keep at it. Eventually the technique will get easier and easier.

Note: Some folks, by nature, prefer passivity. I’m one of those people. When things perk along and I experience money-in times, I forget to work for future abundance. I become complacent with the world and everything in it. If I’m getting too comfortable, Spirit often hits me upside the head, saying: “Time to get moving. Let’s have a money-out week just to keep you on your magickal toes.”

The Golden Cord of Manifestation

Although gold hasn’t always been hard to obtain, its ability to resist tarnish and remain consistently pleasing to the eye has made it popular in various cultures throughout history. Reminiscent of the greater lights (our sun and the stars), religious worship often linked gold to deity. Mythos include the Greek and Roman Golden Age, the golden apples of Hesperides (Greek), the golden bough (Roman), the tale of the golden cockerel (Russian), the golden fleece (Greek), the golden stool (African), and the Golden Legend (the process of compiling the lives of the saints). The Golden Rule (do unto others as you would have them do unto you) is referenced in Egyptian, Akkadian, and Buddhist writings, dated 500 years before the Christian scriptures. In some cases (Egyptian), the rule was associated with goddess worship (sacred to Maat). Gold is a particular favorite of the Santerian goddess Oshun, prosperity deity of streams and rivers.

The following is more of an exercise than it is a spell. You’ll need to practice to become proficient. That’s okay. A little work is good for the soul, and keeps you from getting bored.

Supplies: A golden thread or cord that is the length of your body height; a small empty matchbox painted gold or yellow; a slip of paper that will fit into the box; a gold-inked pen or gold-leaded pencil; a golden candle (white will do as a substitute).

Instructions: Hold your hands over the supplies and ask for blessings in the name of your chosen deity for the purpose of prosperity. On the piece of paper, write something that you wish to manifest. It can be a large or small item or goal. (Remember, bigger things usually take longer to manifest.) Hold the paper and blow on it three times. Put the paper in the box.

Tie one end of the cord around the box. Hold the gold candle in your hand and think about what you want to manifest, then think of how you felt at a time when you had what you wanted. In your mind, link that emotional feeling to the picture of what you wish to manifest now. Light the candle. Try to hold on to that feeling as long as you can.

Close your eyes. Begin running the free end of the cord through your hands while you think about what you want to manifest. Picture yourself drawing your desire through the cord and into your hands. Keep moving the cord through your hands until you get to the box. Hold the box in your hands and continue to think about what you wish to manifest. See yourself happy and holding the desire (or having the energy of the desire around you). Try not to let negative thoughts intrude. Hold the box until you feel your energy rise or feel a slight tingling in your hands. Take a deep breath and open your eyes. Put out the candle.

Repeat this exercise every day until you receive your desire or until twenty-eight days have passed. If you do not have the goal in twenty-eight days, get a fresh candle and begin again. Over the twenty-eight days, be consciously aware of opportunities that may present themselves to you, especially if this is a non-material goal. Be sure to accept those opportunities. Once you have manifested the goal, burn the paper and begin with a new goal or desire. Don’t stop after one goal or manifestation. Keep going. This is a great exercise for any student, and can be done in a group format.

Note: Do not work yourself into a tizzy over this exercise. I got carried away and couldn’t sleep, so I just kept repeating the exercise until I fell into a dead stupor, which got me nothing but frustrated and grumpy the next day.

To enhance this spell:

• Perform at midday.

• Perform on Sunday in the hour of Mercury to enhance communication on a business deal.

• Perform on Sunday in the hour of the sun.

• Perform at Midsummer at dawn, at noon, and then again at dusk.

• Perform when the moon is in Leo.

Herbs, oils, candles, incenses, and powders can enhance your magick. The following three magickal aids, Morgana’s Prosperity Incense, Morgana’s Prosperity Powder, and Morgana’s Prosperity Oil, can be used anytime during the month and are excellent spell enhancers for any situation the universe sets before you.

Morgana’s Prosperity Incense

Morgana owns a magickal shop called Morgana’s Chamber in New York City’s popular Manhattan district (her shop’s address is 242 W. 10th Street, NY, NY, 10014). This petite Witch of the new millennium has a definite flair for cooking up powerful, magickal concoctions, which she has generously shared here.

Incense helps to put you in the right frame of magickal mind, acts as a psychic doorbell to Divinity that you are in need of assistance, and becomes part of the overall magickal working.

Supplies: One cup cedar shavings (cedar has many magickal uses, including healing, purification, protection, and prosperity, and comes from a fragrant evergreen tree); 1⁄2 tablespoon benzoin resin (benzoin resin—from the styrax tree cultivated in Java, Sumatra, and Thailand—is commonly used among magickal practitioners as a base for an incense mixture); 1⁄2 tablespoon dried cinquefoil (a favorite of Pennsylvania Dutch Pow-Wow artists, used primarily for conjuring prosperity and healing); one teaspoon High John the Conqueror Oil (an all-around Southern favorite, this oil is associated with breaking hexes, prosperity, love, success, healing from depression, and happiness); thirteen drops vetivert oil (prosperity, love, and breaking hexes, a definite fast-cash oil and a favorite of Southern folk magickal practitioners); nine drops orange oil (love, luck, money, and divination).

Instructions: Grind cedar shavings and benzoin resin together. Add cinquefoil and oils, mix well. Use anytime in conjunction with your prosperity spells. This incense can be used on charcoal or match-lit. Store in a cool, dry area in an airtight container. Fire is the primary element of this magickal incense, and its zodiac associations are Leo, Aries, and Sagittarius. When using the zodiac energies, remember Aries is to start a project, Leo is to fix or hold firm or defend the project, and Sagittarius is to get things moving that may have stalled.

To enhance this mixture:

• Make on a new or full moon.

• Make when the moon is in Aries, Leo, or Sagittarius.

• Make on a Tuesday (for more aggressive, fiery pursuits).

• Make on Midsummer, when the sun is at its zenith.

• Make on a Thursday in the hour of Jupiter, Venus, or the sun.

• Make on Sunday in the hour of Jupiter, Venus, or the sun.

• Make on Friday in the hour of Jupiter, Venus, or the sun (especially if a partnership is involved).

Morgana’s Prosperity Powder

The primary purpose of any magickal powder is to influence human thought and emotion, or to influence once-human unseen energies that have attached themselves to a particular person. This means that a magickal powder directly affects the behavior of people. Although some magickal individuals may argue that powders are an unethical form of magick, there are certain situations where powders can be useful and ethical. This particular blend combines the energies of success and protection, and therefore is not harmful in any way.

Supplies: One cup cedar shavings (prosperity, protection, and purification); one tablespoon pine needles (prosperity, protection, healing, fertility, and purification); one teaspoon cinnamon (success, love, healing, prosperity, and spirituality); one pinch dragon’s blood herb (increases the potency of any mixture); gold, silver, and green glitter.

Instructions: Mix the first four ingredients together and grind into a fine powder. Add glitter and mix. Store in a cool area in an airtight container. Use powder in spells or alone.

Note: Air is the primary element in any magickal powder, corresponding to the air signs of Aquarius, Gemini, and Libra. Libra starts a project, Aquarius fixes it in place, and Gemini changes.

To enhance this mixture:

• Make on the new or full moon.

• Make when the moon is in Libra, Gemini, or Aquarius.

• Make on Beltaine (May Day).

• Make when the wind is considerably active in your area, or when the wind is coming from the north.

• Make on a Wednesday in the hour of Venus.

• Make at dawn.

Use powder in the following manner:

• Scatter on the ground or carpet, particularly in a doorway, to attract customers, a raise, or a promotion.

• Scatter outside of a bank when you seek a loan.

• Load in candles for success and business protection spells (see page 185 for loading).

• Put in a cloth bag with a horse chestnut. Place in purse or pocket.

• Sprinkle on your money.

• Add a bit to your favorite money incense.

Morgana’s Prosperity Oil

Supplies: One tonka bean (money, courage, and wishes); three parts bergamot oil (also called orange mint; for money and success, bergamot oil is derived from the rind of a fruit that grows in Italy); two parts patchouli oil (money, fertility, and lust; patchouli comes from India and Indonesia and became popular in Britain in the 1820s, where it was used to dye Indian shawls and added to India ink); one part vetivert oil (money, breaking hexes, and love); one drop pineapple oil (money, luck, and chastity); sweet almond oil (base) (money and wisdom).

Instructions: Put tonka bean in an interestingly shaped bottle. Fill half of the bottle with sweet almond oil. Add the other oils and mix well. Store in a cool, dry place. Use the oil to anoint money, candles, spell papers, etc. Oils fall under the influence of Scorpio, Pisces, or Cancer. Use Cancer to begin a project; Scorpio to “fix” or set in place; and Pisces to change a situation.

To enhance this mixture:

• Make on a new or full moon.

• Make during a rain shower.

• Make on Yule (December 21), Christmas, or Chanukah.

• Make at midnight.

• Make when the moon is in Scorpio (for intensity).

• Make on Sunday in the hour of the sun.

Use oils in the following manner:

• Anoint candles.

• Anoint physical objects.

• Add a bit to your favorite money incense.

• This oil is safe for self-anointing.

Pennsylvania Dutch Money
Manifesting Powder

If you’re into herbs and grinding stuff up, here’s another money powder recipe. In Pow-Wow, the four ingredients listed below have an affinity for drawing money and health. Pow-Wow artists loved to use Three Lady Charms (or Three Angel Charms), which we’ll employ here to keep the thread of authenticity between the herbs and the chant. The Three Lady Charms refer to the ancient worship of the Goddess in her aspect of triplicity; therefore, you could concentrate on any trinity you choose, or you may simply call them the Three Ladies.

Supplies: Five almonds, crushed to a fine powder; one part cinquefoil (five-finger grass); one part dried mint; one part orris root.

To give your powder extra oomph, you can also add a colored base powder often sold in magickal candle shops or three drops of your favorite money-drawing or herbal oil. Tip: If you are in a pinch, you can dry the herbs in your microwave. Note: You can use almond oil to anoint magickal tools and candles as an empowering agent for wealth, love, and success.

Instructions: On Sunday or Thursday, in the hour of Jupiter (long-term ventures) or Venus (short-term cash), crush the ingredients with a mortar and pestle (or in a blender). Say:

In the name of the elements of earth and air,
bless this spell.

Empower in the name of the Three Ladies, saying:

Three ladies came from the east, bringing health and wealth. The first said, “You need some.” The second said, “We make some.” The third said, “We give health and wealth to you. So mote it be!”

Repeat the chant three times. As you say the chant, sprinkle the powder on your doorstep, in your wallet or purse, or on a piece of paper describing a proposed project. Add to other spells in this book or to your own spells that I know you are going to design. Money powders, oils, and incenses are a very nice gesture on holidays, birthdays, or any day! (They are especially nice when a friend is down due to financial constraints.) Throw in a few green candles and you’ve created a gift to lift their spirits and share in their wish for prosperity. (Prosperity shared is prosperity gained.) Inscribe candles with the Nordic triceps symbol. If you affirm someone’s right to be prosperous and happy, then you will gain prosperity and happiness in your own life, too.

Nordic triceps symbol

To enhance this mixture:

• Make on the new or full moon.

• Make on Sunday in the hour of the sun or the hours of Jupiter or Venus.

• Make when the moon is in Aries, but empower when the moon is in Taurus.

• Make on New Year’s Day.

• Make on Candlemas.

The Logical Spell

(If You Like Things a Bit
More Complicated)

This one is strictly for the adept magickal worker. The supplies you will use depend entirely on what your spell is for, so you will need to sit down with a piece of paper and determine:

• Your overall goal.

• How many people are involved in the attainment of that goal.

• How many logical steps are needed to accomplish that goal.

• What sort of energy you want to work with: earth, air, water, fire, spirit, stellar, all of those listed, or a combination of those listed.

• An “out,” in case you would wish to break the spell (which is a good idea for any type of spellcasting).

• Determine what color or colors would go with your goal. Match colors to each step, individual, or item in the process of attaining that goal (see color section in the appendices).

• Choose the correct moon phase and planetary hour to match the goal.

Supplies: A very long strip of rawhide; colored beads to match each step, individual, or item in the process of attaining that goal; one bead to represent your “out” (Note: you should be able to string the rawhide through the beads). There should be two beads of the same color representing your goal: one for the beginning, and one for the end.

Instructions: Visualize white light surrounding you and the supplies you plan to use. (Don’t forget to have your piece of paper with you that lists all people, items, energies, steps, an “out,” and the final goal.) Tie a knot at one end of the rawhide. State that this is the beginning. Slide the first goal bead next to the knot. Make another knot to secure this bead. The second bead (or successive beads, depending on how many you choose) will stand for the energies you wish to incorporate. For example, if you want to work with air energy, you might pick a yellow bead (fire—red; water—blue; earth—green; Spirit—silver; lunar—white; stellar—gold). Say the energy aloud. The next bead represents your first step. Repeat the step verbally as you add the bead. Add items, people, and successive steps, tying knots on each side of the bead to secure it. As you add each bead, say the goal aloud. The “out” bead goes next to last. The final bead is the goal bead (that matches the color of the first bead on the string).

At this stage, you have completed the string of beads. Take the string to each quarter (N, S, E, W) and ask for the blessings of that quarter. Ask for the blessings of Spirit. Hold the string out before you and touch each bead, indicating what that bead represents. (It is okay to use your paper if you have a complicated goal.) Do not break the rhythm of your cadence. Do not stop until you have reached the last goal bead. Thank the quarters and thank the energies you accessed. Work the string of beads as often as you like, repeating your list of items, energies, steps, and people until the goal has manifested. When you have received your desire, take the string back into your ritual circle, ask that the magick be dispersed, then cut the rawhide. Burn the rawhide. Save the beads for another spell.

Note: You can also make a “general” string of beads, like the angel rosary in my book Angels: Companions in
Magick.13 Years ago I designed a Birthday Spell on the same principle (printed in Llewellyn’s 1995 Magical Almanac). In that spell, each bead stood for a year of one’s life. For smaller goals (without many steps), you can use yarn and elbow macaroni, which is also a great way to teach kids spellwork.

To enhance this spell:

• Perform on your birthday.

• Perform on a new moon.

• Perform on January 1.

• Perform on May Day (Beltaine).

• Perform when the moon is in Aries.

The Manifestation Stone

This exercise works much like the golden cord spell, only this employs the use of a simple, smooth stone to manifest your desires. In studying Pennsylvania Dutch folk magick, I learned that plain stones have marvelous, potent energy—we just have to realize, accept, and learn to work with that energy.

Instructions: Go on a little trip to find a nice, smooth stone that fits in the palm of your hand (not too big—about the size of the heel of your thumb). If someone has recently given you a smooth stone (which is highly possible) this stone is probably your manifestation stone given to you from the universe through a friend. Wash the stone with spring water. Energize the stone in the name of your favorite (or patron) deity and claim this stone for manifestation work.

Sit quietly and begin rolling the stone in the palm of your hand (or from hand to hand). Close your eyes and take three deep breaths. Relax. Continue to roll the stone. Repeat in your mind, “This is my stone of manifestation,” until you get a little bored or sleepy. Then say:

I manifest ——————————
(stating what it is that you want to bring to yourself).

You can choose a goal, a way of life, a personal quality, an item—it doesn’t matter. Keep repeating what you want to manifest while you roll the stone in your hands. Picture what it is that you want to manifest. When you feel a surge of energy or a slight tingling, it is time to stop for today. Repeat the exercise every day until you manifest your desire. Don’t fret over what you want. If after twenty-eight days you have not manifested what you wanted, energize the stone again and repeat the exercise. Once you have manifested your goal, wash the stone again and pick a new goal. As with the golden cord exercise, keep practicing with your stone. Your stone will gain power over successive use, and you will gain confidence.

Norse money charm

Note: If you have more than one goal that you want to work for simultaneously, you can use more than one stone, if that feels right to you. For example, I might work for a small goal in the morning and a larger goal at night, using two different stones. However, you can use the same stone for different goals. Stones do not seem to be meticulous. They do like to work.

To enhance this spell:

• Paint the money charm symbol (above) on the stone. This is a Norse symbol meaning “My need is great.”

• Perform when the moon is in Virgo.

• Perform on a Wednesday in the hour of Mercury (if the spell involves the support of many people).

• Perform on Friday in the hour of the sun, Jupiter, or Mercury, depending on the energies you wish to manifest.

Prosperity Scroll

I love petition magick because of its simplicity. Here, we use the Celtic goddess Rosemerta for deity association. She is another cornucopia deity of harvest and a patroness of merchants and wealth. She’s also been linked with the Roman-Celtic Mercury (though this is a stretch). Her Gaulish/British name means “good purveyor” and she is sometimes portrayed with a butter churn, but usually seen with the cornucopia.

Supplies: One-inch wide strip of parchment paper that is three feet long; a green-inked pen; your favorite incense.

Instructions: Draw the astrological sign of Taurus at the top of the strip (). Write on the paper: “Holy Mother, manifest what I place upon this list.” Make a list of what you desire on the paper (you will have a lot of extra space—that’s okay). Roll the paper tightly into a little scroll. Pass the list over the incense, repeating the above charm nine times. Place the scroll in your purse, wallet, on your altar, by your desk, etc.—wherever you can add to it when you desire or hold it in your hand and repeat the charm when you feel like it. When the paper is full and you have received all that you asked for, thank Rosemerta, burn the paper, and begin a new list.

To enhance this spell:

• Perform at Lammas or when the moon is in Capricorn
if the items you listed are those that you’ve worked on and you are ready to reap your harvest.

• Perform when a project is lagging and needs an extra boost when the moon is in Aries.

• Perform during the new or full moon.

Quick Spell idea: With Rosemerta’s association to the butter churn, you can take an empty butter box, place your requests inside, sprinkle with your money powder and burn in an outside ritual fire as an offering to her.

House Wealth Incense

The primary deity for this recipe is Dagda (Daghdha), an Irish deity considered to be one of the two greatest kings of the Tuatha De Danann. He is an all-father deity, a military leader, and master tradesman who can invoke the seasons and who holds a cauldron of plenty called the Undry that could feed the whole earth. Dagda is sometimes called the Lord of Great Knowledge because he possesses all the knowledge of the universe. Not to be trifled with, he carries an enormous club that can bash an enemy’s brains with a single blow. Dagda is not a white-light-and-bubbles kind of guy. He is portrayed as holding a large club or fork, symbolizing his control over the food supply of the cosmos.

Note: Call on Dagda if you need money for food, your garden, or other aspect linked to your physical survival. He is also wonderful if you are having trouble on the job.

As in the money powder, the ingredients of the house wealth incense each have magickal properties of
their own.

Supplies: Three parts frankincense (linked both to solar [Apollo, Adonis, Ra] and lunar deities [Demeter], frankincense has been used in religious ceremonies for centuries as an herb of wealth and purification); one part myrrh (sacred to Aphrodite and Adonis [as well as Cybele, Hecate, Rhea, and Juno], this herb also has connections to the legend of the phoenix and the magickal aspects of rebirth); one part patchouli (usually a prime ingredient in wealth or love spells because of its ability to attract energies, people, or things); 1⁄2 part allspice (used for money, luck, and healing, and a great additive in Yule cookies, to bring prosperity into the home); 1⁄2 part nutmeg (another flexible herb used in money, wealth, health, and fidelity spells); 1⁄2 part ginger (love, money, success, strength, and power are the essential energies linked to this herb); one pinch of household dust (added to create sympathy between the herbal mixture and the place where you live); a charcoal incense brick; a blue candle; a purple candle.

Instructions: On Thursday, in the hour of the sun (or at midday), mix the ingredients. Grind with mortar and pestle (you can even use a blender, just remember to wash the bowl well when you’re done). You can empower in the name of Dagda, your patron deity, a deity associated with prosperity (of which we’ve named several so far), or simply empower in the name of Spirit. Primary elements for this spell are earth (the herbs), air (the smoke), and fire (the charcoal). Burn on a charcoal brick before a mirror empowered for household protection and monetary success,14 or carry around the entire house, fumigating all corners (including attic and basement). Empower the purple and blue candles for wealth and spiritual success. Allow these candles to completely burn. You can also sprinkle the incense on your hearthstone or on logs in your fireplace before the first fall burn, or last spring burn.

If times have been particularly bad, burn a black candle to dispel negativity.

To enhance this mixture:

• Make over the Yule, Christmas, and Chanukah holiday season (great for gifts).

• Make on the new, waxing, or full moon.

• Make for that special friend who just bought a house.

• Make for spring and fall housecleaning.

• Make when the moon is in Virgo, then empower when the moon is in Taurus.

• Make on a Sunday for success or Monday or Friday for those correspondences associated with the home.

Prosperity Floor Wash

Folk superstitions from various cultures believe that the floors and corners of your home trap negativity, especially if coated with ground-in dirt, which impedes the health and prosperity of the family unit. Many occult shops and botanicals carry prepared floor washes that are to be used on a clean, dry floor, doorknobs, or store counters to improve the prosperity of the home or establishment.

Supplies: One bucket; one handful of salt; three cinnamon sticks; three drops honey; one teaspoon cinquefoil; one teaspoon powdered eggshell; a handful of violets, roses, or lavender; one sliced lemon; one new wooden spoon; a mop; sage (comes in a smudge stick or loose); a fireproof pot.

Instructions: Wash all wooden or tile floors with a good detergent. Allow to dry. In a bucket, mix the salt, cinnamon sticks, honey, cinquefoil, powdered eggshell, and flowers. Squeeze in lemon juice and two gallons water. Mix three times with a new wooden spoon. Mop the floor with the mixture. Allow to dry. Sweep herbs and flowers out the door. Light the sage in the fireproof pot and brush the fragrant smoke in swirling motions in the corners of the room.

To enhance this mixture:

• When choosing a day or time to make your floor wash and implement the energies, keep in mind that Jupiter energy lends itself to the big picture and Venus energy manifests in fast cash.

• Make during a new or waxing moon.

• Use before and after a large social or family event.

• Use in your place of business.

• Sprinkle in your vehicle.

The Magickal Check

To do this spell, you will need to use one of the checks from your checking account. Write yourself a magickal check in green ink for services rendered to yourself. Do not date the check. The fee should directly relate to a specific goal, which you will write on the bottom, left-hand corner of the check. For example, you might write: For writing a popular fiction. (That’s what I wrote.) You may have a goal of $250 or $50,000, it doesn’t matter. Sprinkle the check with cinnamon. Seal the back by using the equal-armed cross (page 56) and money oil. This is your special, magickal check. You can put it in your wallet or purse, or in a magick box or jar. Then, each paycheck, write a smaller check to yourself for services rendered. It doesn’t have to be much—$5 will work just as well as $50. The act of paying yourself is a psychological booster that helps to affirm that yes, you can pay yourself; yes, you can reach your goals, and yes, you do deserve to be paid! Be sure that you actually spend the money on yourself. No coughing it up to the kids, spouse, friends, sister, or in-laws. This belongs to you. Actor Jim Carrey wrote a check to himself for $50,000 long before he became famous. And you know—he got to cash that check! (And no, he didn’t get the idea from me. It was his own.)

To enhance this spell:

• If the check represents prosperity from your hard work, business venture, or banking expertise, then write while the moon is in Capricorn.

• Write on a new or waxing moon.

• Surround the check with a gold candle, a green candle, and a red candle (for action); light the candles for seven days, from the new through the waxing moon (only burn for the whole time if candles are in a fire-safe area and there are no children or pets nearby).

Wheel of Fortune

Although deceptively simple, this is one of my favorite spells of manifestation, and is considered an “oldie but goodie” among magickal folk.15 We’re going to work again with Juno (or Fortuna), as both goddesses are historically linked to the wheel of fortune. Why reinvent the wheel? Er, goddess. Whatever.

For this spell we are going to use the runes Feoh () or Gyfu () (especially if you require something that will be in partnership with another, such as a business proposition).

Supplies: One piece of white paper; colored pencils; green marker; a list of your desires; blessed spring water; one green candle.

Instructions: On the full or waxing moon, sit down at a table with your supplies. Hold the green candle in your hands, and say:

O creature of earth, assist me to magnify my desires.

Light the candle, and say:

O creature of fire, assist me to magnify my desires.

Draw a large circle on your paper with the green marker. This circle represents the magick circle. Divide your circle into pie slices, one slice for each desire. On each slice, in green marker, write your desire. With the colored pencils, draw an image that corresponds to your desire in each pie slice. For example, recently I found one of my old color wheels tucked under my altar stone. Two years ago, I asked for the following: a new computer that would meet my writing needs; a new refrigerator; new beds for the kids; a good car that would meet my transportation needs, be in excellent condition, and be safe; the smooth publication of one of my books; the opportunity to promote my books. As I looked over my list, I realized that I had received everything I had asked for, and more.

On your paper, draw any runes or other magickal sigils that you feel appropriate, or the runes suggested above. Write “In the name of Juno” on the back of the paper. Sprinkle with a bit of blessed spring water, and say:

O creature of water, grant my will with my desire.

Blow three times on the paper, and say:

O creature of air, grant my will with my desire.

Then say:

My desires become manifest in Juno’s name.
So mote it be!

Seal with an equal-armed cross (page 56).

When you have finished the color wheel, envision yourself surrounded by white light. Present the color wheel to the quarter energies (N, S, E, W), asking for blessings on your desires. Invoke your chosen deity (in our example we are using Juno), again asking for blessings. Thank the quarters. Thank deity. Put your color wheel in a safe place. I normally hide my color wheels so that when I do find them a few years down the road, I can smile at the affirmation of what I have accomplished. When you do discover where you’ve hidden that color wheel, thank the quarters and deity again, then burn the paper.

Should most things be granted, yet one item remains unmanifest (and provided that you still want the item), do not burn the old color wheel. Instead, create a new color wheel and glue it on top of the old one to hold on to the continuity of the previous magick.

To enhance this spell:

• Turn your wheel into a star—even better, superimpose the star over the wheel. Use the points of the star for more spiritual pursuits.

• Perform on New Year’s Day.

• Change the wheel into its opposite, citing all the things you want to banish from your life. Perform this type of spell on a Saturday in the hour of Saturn, on the dark of the moon, or on a waning moon.

Manifesting Harmony with Others:
The Enchanted God Bowl

If you are a merchant of any kind or involved with travel, communications, or big business, this is the spell for you. A little while back I was having trouble with a particular business organization, especially in the area of communication. It wasn’t that I was doing anything wrong and it wasn’t that the people in the organization were bad—we simply weren’t communicating properly, and I knew it. I tried all the regular channels of communication first, but I just didn’t seem to be getting anywhere. This difficulty was affecting my prosperity, and therefore I knew I had to do something about the situation. (Never call something a problem, always called it a “situation.” One of my old bosses taught me that one, and he was right. How you perceive events has a lot to do with how you succeed—or don’t—within that event.) Anyway, it was time to wiggle those magickal fingers of mine!

There were a lot of things I could have done. That’s the nice thing about magick—you have a whole compendium of choices—but I wanted to do something special, something just for this particular prob . . . er, situation. To that end, I designed an enchanted god bowl out of clay and dedicated it to Mercury (Roman god of communications, whose Greek counterpart is Hermes) on a Wednesday during a new moon. Mercury was also the protector of the corn trade in Sicily, which gives us a good correspondence if we wish to protect what we already own, as well as enhance our trading power. The merchant’s guild was known as Mercuriales. Mercury’s yearly festival fell on May 15 and merchants would sprinkle themselves and their goods with corn meal as a gift and sacrifice to prosperity, followed by a good dousing of holy water.

It took me all day to make the bowl, and as I worked the clay I kept my thoughts focused on improving communications between myself and the organization. I thought of the feast of Mercury, what it would have been like, and kept the energies of Mercury in mind. The element of mercury is called quicksilver. Mercury’s attributes include the winged hat, winged shoes, and the caduceus (double snakes on a stick, signifying the healing arts). The astrological symbol for Mercury is .

That night I wrote down exactly what I wanted to happen: Clear and loving communication between myself and any employee of that business that would lead to mutual success. I placed the bowl on my altar, then placed the paper in the bowl, repeating my desire.

Within twenty-four hours, a flurry of communication ensued and the situation was resolved. Since I worked with this business often, I kept the bowl strictly for communicating with any employee of that establishment. Every time I wanted to work with them, I simply put my request in the bowl. When my request was granted, I burned the paper and thanked deity. When I completed my business with that company, I broke the bowl in ritual and returned the clay to the earth.

To enhance this spell:

• Make the bowl on a Wednesday in the hour of Mercury.

• Surround the bowl with brown and gold candles. Burn for friendship in monetary pursuits.

• Combine the symbol for Mercury () and the Sun (). Inscribe on the bowl and on the candles.

Egg and Brown Sugar Spell

From Russian sorcery to Pennsylvania Dutch folk magick, the egg has been a prominent ingredient in many magickal operations. Seen as the manifestation of new life, in Germany eggs were often plowed into the fields in autumn to ensure a plentiful harvest for the following year. The egg is also considered an appropriate sacrifice to the dead in Asia and Europe, and can be used when requesting magickal assistance from those beyond the veil.

Cinquefoil, commonly known as five-finger grass, figures prominently in Pennsylvania Dutch magickal practices. Seen as “a helping hand,” the herb has a variety of uses, from protection to securing wealth. This herb can also be brewed and cooled, then used to cleanse magickal tools, sprinkled in the corner of any room to dispel negativity, or employed as anointing water.

Supplies: One part brown sugar; one part cinquefoil; one part patchouli herb and incense; mortar and pestle; one brown egg; one brown marker; one brown candle; almond oil. Our color scheme of brown is to promote harmony and feelings of kinship with the universe.

Instructions: Mix the brown sugar, cinquefoil, and patchouli herb together with mortar and pestle. On a full moon, write what you need most on the brown egg with the brown marker. You can list several desires on one egg. In a ritual circle, light the incense. Rub almond oil on your brown candle. Hold the candle in your hand and concentrate on the desires you wrote on the egg. Light the candle. Hold the egg in your hand and name your desires aloud, saying “I draw forth” before each desire. For example: “I draw forth positive abundance. I draw forth a purse with many pockets. I draw forth a new refrigerator. I draw forth harmony. I draw forth a small, pink, stuffed elephant.” (Gotcha!) Ask for blessings from a chosen deity. Pass the egg through the incense, stating your goals once again. Pass the egg through the candle flame, repeating your desires. As the candle burns, bury the egg on your property. (If you don’t have land, use a small container with potting soil, but place the container outdoors because as the egg rots, it may smell up your living space.) Dig a small hole in the ground and add the brown sugar. Place the egg on top. As you bury the egg, say:

I give blessings and love to the universe.
I manifest positive Spirit into myself. As this egg rots,
my desires will manifest. And it is so.

Let the candle burn to completion. As the egg is a good gift for the dead, you can speak to a specific ancestor when formulating your desires and then again when burying the egg. If you do this, sprinkle a little patchouli on top of the ground over the buried egg (as patchouli also relates to honoring the dead).

To enhance this spell:

• Perform on August 1 (Lammas) or on the day that you remove the last of the harvest from your garden.

• Perform under the Harvest Moon.

• Perform on Oestre or Easter—as eggs relate to spring, you may wish to use this spell in any spring ritual.

Egg Prosperity Charm

This spell is a bit more complicated, takes a little dexterity on your part, and will be time-consuming but well worth the struggle.

Supplies: One egg at room temperature; darning needle or X-Acto knife; a cork; green egg dye; 1⁄8 teaspoon each mint, cinquefoil, and cinnamon; a small cutting of your hair; a small piece of loadstone, magnetized iron fillings, or a small holey stone; a silver charm of your choice (keep your choices tiny); three drops money oil.

Instructions: Insert the eye of the darning needle into the cork. Holding the cork end, puncture the egg on the top and the bottom by rotating the needle and applying light pressure. (It may take you a few eggs to get the hang of this, so you might want to set out more than one to reach room temperature.) Make the hole at the narrow end large enough that your collected ingredients will fit through the hole. Blow out the contents of the egg through the holes that you made from the wide bottom to alleviate strain on the narrow top. As the contents of the egg begin to dribble, shake the egg up and down to hasten the flow. After you have emptied the egg, you are ready to dye the shell. After dying, dry the shell in the sun. In a prosperity ceremony written by yourself, add the herbs and other small objects. Empower the entire egg for general prosperity. Add the money oil. Place on your altar or in some other safe place in your home. Renew once a year.

To enhance this spell:

• Employ this spell on Beltaine or New Year’s Day.

• Add the astrological symbols of Taurus for long-term luxury energy; Gemini for a quick change of luck; Aries if during a time when you need an extra boost; or Scorpio for intensity (see appendix).

To Win a Court Case That
Involves Receiving Money

This spell only works if you are to fairly receive money from a court case.

Supplies: One blue candle (for peace in your prosperity); one red candle (for fast action); one cake of blue soap; the names of all who will reside in judgement over you in the court case, including the names of those who are going against you; one glass of water; a small amount of lemon oil.

Instructions: If you can, begin this spell seven days before going to court. Carve the names of the people listed above on the bar of soap. Place the soap in the glass of water. Light the red and blue candles, asking for a fair judgement. Invoke the four archangels—Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, and Uriel—asking for their protection and persuasion in the court case. Allow the candles to burn completely. When the court case is over, dispose of the water and soap in an environmentally safe way.

Rub the lemon oil on your hands and the soles of your shoes before you go into court.

To enhance this spell:

• Talk to your guardian angel before you go into court and keep talking to your guardian angel while you are in court.

• Ask the angels of justice to help you as you enter the courthouse.

Roll of the Dice

Did you ever get the feeling that what you are about to do with your money or a job you are trying to get may surely be by chance alone? This spell is to help you increase your odds of success in any endeavor.

Supplies: Two dice; money oil; one lodestone (you can substitute a magnet); one red flannel bag; one red candle; one piece of paper.

Instructions: Write exactly what you want on the piece of paper. Anoint the candle with the money oil (or other type of attraction oil). Light the candle, asking for assistance from Spirit in this unknown venture. Anoint the dice in the same manner, asking for assistance. Empower the lodestone to bring good fortune to you. Roll and throw the dice seven times, each time asking that the odds for you be strengthened and the odds against you be lessened. Place the dice, the piece of paper, and the lodestone in the red bag. Allow the candle to burn completely. Carry the bag with you. You can take out the dice and roll anytime, repeating your request. Re-empower the bag every full moon (even if you did not make the original bag on the full moon).

Helping Your Bank Account and
Other Investments Grow

Children really enjoy helping you with this spell. It’s an easy way to teach them creative visualization and help your bank account sprout lots of dollar bills. The astrological sign of Capricorn rules money and banking. Put the symbol of Capricorn () at the top of your chart.

Supplies: One poster board; colored pencils or markers; your recent bank statement; green construction paper; glue.

Instructions: Find your recent bank or investment statement. Write the account number on the back of the poster board. Draw a circle around the number to protect the investments you already have. On the front of the poster board draw a large tree with lots and lots of branches. At the top of the tree write your monetary goal. At the bottom of the tree write your current balance. Cut out three hundred and sixty-five leaves. (You can make them little leaves or, if the idea of cutting all those leaves gives you heart failure, you can use play money or leaf stickers.) Hold your hands over the leaves and the poster board, and say:

Each day I add a leaf, each day my balance grows.
Each day I add a leaf, until I reach my goal.
With harm to none, so mote it be!

Hang the poster board in a prominent place. Each day, glue a leaf on your tree, visualizing your bank accounts growing to reach your goal. Repeat the spell as you hang the leaf. When you have reached your goal, or three hundred and sixty-five days are up, burn the poster board. Start a new one with the old goal (if you are still working toward that goal) or set yourself a new goal.

To enhance this spell:

• Construct two weeks after school begins (the first week or so is just too busy; by week three, things settle down enough for you to introduce this project to your kids).

Prosperity Gourd

This spell requires you to think ahead a bit and collect some nice gourds during the harvest season. If you have a green thumb you may wish to plant some gourds in your garden over the summer months. We put up a trellis because we didn’t have enough room with our raised beds, and then we lost the seeds so I had to plant cucumbers. (I guess the Goddess wanted bread and butter pickles that year.) I had to buy my gourds at the grocery store. Over the winter months, dry the gourds in your attic, basement, or garage—anywhere that is cool and dry. Gourds will occasionally get bad spots on them while drying, but they are still good so don’t throw them away.

Supplies: One dried gourd; thin wire or string; one part dragon’s blood herb; one part mustard seed; one part sage; one part cinquefoil; five new pennies; five kernels dried corn.

Instructions: Cut off the top of the gourd with a sharp knife. Punch a hole half an inch from the top of the opening on each side of the gourd. Thread the wire into the holes, allowing a loop for hanging. Secure the wire by twisting it. On the full moon, mix the dragon’s blood herb, mustard seed, and cinquefoil together. Empower for protection of your finances and future bounty. Place in the gourd. Add the five new pennies and the five kernels of dried corn. Hold your hands over the gourd, pray, and state your desire for future plentiful, positive harvests and protection for what you already have. Under the full moon, hang the gourd outside of your front door.

If you want to be decorative, you can paint the outside of the gourd with green or blue paint and add your favorite magickal sigils for prosperity.

To enhance this spell:

• Make during the full or new moon.

• Make during your Lammas, Fall Equinox, or Samhain celebration.

Simple Potpourri
Prosperity Shell

The primary deity for this easy spell is the Yoruban Oshun, goddess of the sweet waters. As we’ve seen with various goddesses, Oshun has many names and many faces. As Oshun Ana (ana meaning first goddess), she is the goddess of luxury and love. The original legend around this deity indicates that she was birthed in the headwaters of the Oshun River, hence her association with the sweet waters of rivers, streams, creeks, and wells. She is said to cure the sick and impart fertility with her loving essence. As Oshun Telargo, Oshun is seen as the modest one, and as Oshun Yeye Moro, she is a formidable seductress. Her male counterpart is Chango (Shango), god of thunder (sometimes she is seen as his sister or mistress). African gods and goddesses are different, as they require gifts if you wish the blessings of their favor. Oshun loves pumpkins, sweets, gold, yellow roses, yellow candles, and pretty things in general; however, once you give something to Oshun, you cannot take it back. The item belongs to her forever, and she is known to curse those who renege on their promises or take gifts back from her. Devotees of Oshun wear amber beads. If you have a piece of amber and can part with it, then this is a wonderful gift for this goddess. The day of Oshun is Friday under the planet of Venus.

Note: African deities are fussy. They will either work with you, or they won’t. Much like the Celtic Morrigan, African deities pick you—you do not have the luxury of choosing them. Other gods and goddesses you can choose for this spell are Juno (Roman); Rosemerta (Celtic); or Dagda (Celtic).

Supplies: Four ounces rose buds; 1⁄4 ounce tonka beans; 1⁄4 ounce cinnamon; two ounces powdered orris root; 1⁄4 ounce dried mint; 1⁄4 ounce dried orange peel; two glass bowls (do not use metal, or your fragrance will be spoiled); a wooden spoon; large glass jar with cork stopper or glass top; ten drops money oil; one large seashell.

Instructions: Crush tonka beans. In the large bowl, combine the tonka beans, cinnamon, orris root, and mint (the orris root is the fixative; without this herb, your potpourri would quickly lose its fragrance). In the other bowl, lightly crush the rose buds. Mix all ingredients together lightly with the wooden spoon. Add the money oil to the dry ingredients and stir again in a clockwise direction, visualizing prosperity coming into your home or place of business. Transfer the mixture into the glass jar and cover. Allow the mixture to settle for two weeks in a cool, dark place. Shake every other day. When you feel the mixture has sufficiently aged, pour into the seashell and place on an altar dedicated to Oshun. Save the remainder of the mixture for your prosperity poppet or charm bag.

To enhance this spell:

• Leave an offering to Oshun beside sweet water.

• Mix on Midsummer’s Day.

• Mix on the full or waxing moon.

• If you desperately need money, you can place five yellow roses in a gallon of water, then burn a yellow candle, asking Oshun to bring you money as quickly as possible. Don’t forget your offering.

Prosperity Poppet

Poppets are cloth, clay, or wax effigies that work through sympathetic magick16 and can be used for a variety of magickal intent. Poppets may be one of the oldest feminine magickal applications, birthed from Middle Eastern motherhood charms, made from clay and menstrual blood, designed to protect children. Poppets also served as surrogate sacrifices in several areas under Celtic influence. The idea was to give back to the Mother what She gave to Her people in the form of a corn dolly, scarecrow, or wicker effigy. Most poppet magick includes adding something that belongs to the person the poppet represents, such as hair, nail clippings, blood, earth from a footprint, or a piece of favored clothing. Here, you will be making a poppet that represents yourself, and you will be working for personal prosperity.

Supplies: Two squares green felt; red thread; one piece of lightweight cardboard; a pencil; a small picture of yourself; a lock of your hair or nail clippings; a black marker; four foreign coins.

Instructions: Make a simple drawing on the cardboard that looks like a gingerbread man or woman. This is you and the drawing will be your pattern for cutting the two pieces of felt. Cut out the pattern and lay it on the two pieces of felt and cut out the figure. Use the red thread to stitch up three-fourths of the poppet. The red will activate the green prosperity energy of the poppet. Leave a large enough hole to easily stuff the poppet. Place the picture of yourself, the herbs, and the lock of hair in the poppet. Place a coin in each arm and each leg. Sew shut.

Hold your hands over the poppet to draw prosperity and positive abundance toward you, asking for the blessings of divinity. Hang in a safe place. Renew the herbs every six months.

To enhance this spell:

• Surround poppet with red candles for lots of action.

• Make poppets as a group project, then attach to a belt. Dance the spiral dance at Midsummer.

• Make when the moon is in Taurus to fix and hold luxury.

• Make on the new or waxing moon.

Prosperity Charm or Conjuring Bag

The prosperity charm or conjuring bag works the same as the prosperity poppet, with one vital difference: the color of the bag should be red and the thread green. You can make the bag with a drawstring so that changing the herbs every six months will be an easier task. Remember to add your picture and a lodestone to magnify the manifestation. You might also wish to add a piece of St. John’s Wort to protect your future riches. For fast cash, empower in the hour of Venus. For long-term expansion, empower in the hour of Jupiter. Carry the bag in your pocket, purse, or briefcase.

To Get a Bank Loan

This spell is to be used for any transaction where you wish to receive money from a bank (the legal way, of course).

Supplies: One small bowl of water; five yellow floating candles; one yellow rose; five mint leaves; piece of paper with bank’s name on it; change for a dollar.

Instructions: Before you fill out the loan application, go to the bank and receive change for one dollar. You will use this change for the spell. On the day that you sign the loan application, begin the spell. Set the bowl on top of the name of the bank. Place the coins from the change you got at the bank in the bottom of the bowl. Add the five mint leaves to the water. Place the rose on top. At noon, light one of the floating candles and place in the bowl. Concentrate on the bank giving you the loan with the best interest possible. Invoke your guardian angel for help. Let the candle burn. Each day for the next four consecutive days, place another lit candle in the bowl at noon and invoke your guardian angel. Do not remove the candles that are no longer burning. After you have received the loan, thank your guardian angel. Keep any candle remnants in case you have trouble paying the loan later on, as they psychically connect you to the loan. You also may wish to work with the candle remnants to help you pay your bill on time or to banish your overall debt.

To enhance this spell:

• Do not sign paperwork or apply for a loan when the moon is void of course or when Mercury is retrograde.

• Moon in first and second quarters favors the lender, in third and fourth quarters favors the borrower.

Spell for Business Success

If you own your own business or are self-employed in some other way, here’s a great spell to give your new or old business a boost.

Supplies: One large dinner plate; 1⁄4 cup corn meal; seven foreign coins; one small red flannel bag; your choice of prosperity incense; your choice of money oil (if you don’t have money oil, use olive or almond oil); one green candle; one yellow candle; one red candle; one blue candle; one lodestone (can substitute a magnet). Write the name of your business (or what the business venture is all about) on a piece of paper. Carve the symbol of the sun () on each candle.

Instructions: Anoint each candle with oil. Put the name of your business underneath the plate. Sprinkle the plate with the corn meal, asking for blessings from the goddess of all harvests. Arrange the seven foreign coins on the bed of corn meal in the shape of a cross, four coins across, four coins down. Set the green candle at the top of the arrangement, the yellow candle to the right, the red candle at the bottom, and the blue candle at the left of the arrangement. Put the lodestone directly in the center of your coin pattern. Light the candles, beginning with the green candle, asking the goddess of all harvests to bring you business success. Light the incense, repeating your request. Allow the candles and incense to burn completely. Place the coins, the lodestone, and the corn meal in the red bag. Carry the red bag with you as much as possible, or place somewhere in your business. Renew this spell every six months or when you feel the need.

Freebies and Risks

That’s right: there are no freebies. Ever. There must always be an equal exchange of energy between yourself and another, regardless of the event, situation, or need. If there is not an equal exchange, then you will eventually suffer. Does this mean that you can’t be charitable? Not at all. I said “equal exchange of energy,” not necessarily a monetary fee for your services. Many of us were brought up with the idea that charity is the highest form of giving—which is true on its spiritual level. What becomes disturbing is the behavior of many individuals who feel that they should receive something for nothing simply because they breathe. When trying to get your finances on track, don’t be so generous that you overextend yourself or leave yourself open to various scams that milk you of your paycheck. If something looks too good to be true, then it probably is too good to be true. Use a divination tool, consult outside sources that have knowledge of an individual, corporation, or financial institution, and talk to your guardian angel before you take any sort of risk with your money. Finally, Shakespeare’s adage of “neither a borrower nor lender be” should become your magickal mantra in as many of your financial dealings as possible. My adage is “never borrow money from a friend and never lend your friends money.” If you want to make a gift to someone, that’s different, but owing friends or having friends owe you gets tied up with all sorts of nasty emotional issues. Don’t bother to go there.

Quickies for Manifesting Prosperity

Performing spells, ceremonies, and exercises to improve your prosperity are fantastic when you have the time. What do you do when you’ve been faithfully working that manifesting or banishing magick and now you’ve got a trip to go on, a bus to catch, a date to meet, or homework to do? Sometimes there just aren’t enough hours in the day. Here are some magickal quickies to keep your confidence up and prosperity flowing freely through your life. Quickies do not take the place of your regular magickal work, but are helpful to keep things moving at a steady pace.

• Place dried seaweed under the rug in the busiest portion of the house to draw luck and prosperity to you.

• Wash your windows with ammonia and vinegar to bring the blessings of the wind.

• Buy a regulator clock (or other chiming time mechanism). As the chimes sound on the hour, repeat your favorite prosperity affirmation.

• Position furniture or other decorative objects in the corners of your room to keep the energy flowing smoothly.

• Paint the inside of your bathroom door black, and keep it closed at all times to keep your prosperity from flushing out of the house.

• Use a holey stone (stones with natural holes, found at the seashore or in a creek bed) to pull positive energy toward you.

• Sprinkle cinquefoil in the bottom of your wallet, purse, safe, money box, and so on to give you that helping hand in the prosperity department.

• Blow bubbles with a straw in your morning coffee to bring about a prosperous day (I’m not kidding).

• To draw a particular item toward you, draw a pentacle on a piece of paper. Take a toy image of what you desire and paint your name on the underside of the image. Place the object in the center of the pentacle. Leave untouched until you receive what you desire. Surround with a circle of salt for extra protection of your desire.

• To change your luck, add one tablespoon of nutmeg to six cups of boiling water. Steep for three hours. Use for body anointing or add to a ritual bath. If you have a sensitivity to unusual things in the bath water (I do), then you can use as a rinse while you are in the shower.

• Empower gold glitter and sprinkle on your doorstep to bring prosperity into the home.

• Buy an easy book on feng shui (the Chinese art of placement) and mix with your prosperity magick.

• Begin new ventures during the increase of the moon.

• Sign important papers, contracts, or agreements when the moon is increasing.

Quickies for the Business Owner

• Wrap three foreign coins in gold cloth. Place in the cash register.

• Stick a clove of garlic with nine pins and hang close to the front door.

• Rubber band a large bill around an empowered mandrake root. Place in cash register.

• Stuff a poppet with three dollar bills and three foreign coins. Hide under the counter by the register.

• Cleanse your store, vending area, or desk every day with blessed spring water or sage. Be sure to use the floor wash to encourage a constant flow of customers.

• From a regular card deck, take the ace, ten, nine, and seven of diamonds. Anoint with prosperity oil (page 84) and place together in your purse or pocket. Renew once a month on the full moon.

• Soak a clove of garlic in your favorite magickal money drawing oil. Hang directly under the cash register or the desk where you work.

Learn to Go with Your Gut

Throughout this book I give you lots of information on deities, herbs, candle colors, phases of the moon, planetary energies, etc. Be willing to experiment with these correspondences. The moon in the various signs is a subjective type of magick, and may not work for everyone the same way. Learn to go with your gut feelings on any issue. For example, everything may be perking along fine, you’re working with the new and waxing moons, it’s a money-in day or week, and suddenly you feel like banishing negative energies, but it isn’t the waning moon and today is Friday, a love day. Should you wait and not follow your instinct? No. Go ahead and do what your inner self is telling you to do. Don’t get all tied up over why you feel this way or that way. Go ahead and anoint the black candle. Roll the black candle in red glitter. Burn the candle and ask Spirit (or your chosen deity) to dissipate any negative energies around you.

Now it’s time for you to take a peek at what I developed in the realm of banishing poverty (if you haven’t already) and learn how to turn that waning moon energy into financial success!

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11. The concept of money-in and money-out came from Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer’s book Creating Money, Keys to Abundance (see Bibliography). I recommend this book for those who are budget-conscious.

12. If you are really into magickal timing, you might want to have an astrologer take a peek at your natal chart.

13. Llewellyn, 1997.

14. The Magical Household by Scott Cunningham and David Harrington. Llewellyn, 1997. Page 165.

15. Based on a spell from Practical Color Magick by Raymond Buckland. Llewellyn, 1983.

16. Those things that share energy, similarity, or likeness.